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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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